Echo! Tesla Layoffs, Tokyo Motor Show Previews, Model 3 Delay Causes- TEN Future Car News 10/20/2017

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Weekly show about future cars and future car technology.  This week news about:

Pushed? - Tesla fires hundreds of employees, but why?
Big Spending  - How $80 billion has been spent thus far in autonomous vehicles with no ‘clear’ leader. -
Trail By Brooklyn - GM to send its autonomous cars to New York -
Green Lit  - Battery plant in Tennessee where LEAF batteries are made gets green light to go ahead, despite impending sale. -
Upgrade Time - Zero Motorcycles updates its lineup for 2018 with longer range, more performance.
Tokyo Mobility - Nissan hints at new EV unveil coming in Tokyo later this month -  
No Credits For You!  - Tesla confirms Model 3 will come without Supercharger credits -  
Adopting Standards - Tesla adopts new charging standard for China. - 
Northern Light - Volvo unveils Polestar 1 EV Concept -  
Crazy Good - September Chinese EV sales figures show EVs really taking off - , while BAIC chairman says we’ll see the one millionth Chinese EV made next year -  
Blame Game  - Oppenheimer says suppliers are to blame for slow Model 3 ramp up.  
Going Dutch  - The Netherlands decides to ban all internal combustion engined vehicles from its roads in just twelve years’ time -
Never gonna Give You Up - Toyota plans new fuel cell concepts for Tokyo -  
Need To Peak - Volkswagen announces return to Pike’s Peak with EV race car -
Floating Power - World’s first floating wind farm goes live, produces electricity for the first time -